CHALLENGE Cass County, Indiana, community members—like people all around the country—had become increasingly aware of the alarming trend toward violent incidents in the nation’s schools. County leaders, including the directors of the Cass County Community Foundation (CCCF), believed it was incumbent on them to take a communal approach to addressing school safety because they realized that no community could consider itself immune to the possibility of such events. “We believe that school safety is not one dimensional and the responsibility does not belong solely to our schools: it is the entire community’s responsibility to work together to find solutions,” says CCCF president and CEO Deanna Crispen. “The community foundation was considering possible collaborative projects wit

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